Computational cognitive modeling of civil aviation pilots

Aiming at the lack of the pilot cognitive behavior integration modeling in the domestic aviation field (section 1), this paper provides some deep explanation and comprehensive models for the inherent mechanism of pilots flying skills acquisition, retrieval and exertion on the base of the ACT-R architecture (section 3).The core of section 2 is that it discusses the features of ACT-R theory. Through describing the process of flying an aircraft (section 4.1), the experimental design (section 4.2) and integrated simulation (section 4.3) of the typical missions in the cockpit, “the pilot warning information perception, processing and decision-making”, are set up. The subjects´ performance and the simulation results are consistent at three distinct levels, from broad to fine grain (section 4.4). It shows that the ACT-R architecture applies the modeling of pilot well.